America\'s Military Adversaries. From Colonial Times to the Present

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America’s Military Adversaries From Colonial Times to the Present By John C. Fredriksen B Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colo ...

Copyright © 2001 by John C. Fredriksen All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval ...

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Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de CONTENTS ...

vii America’s Military Adversaries, Preface and Acknowledgments, ix Aguinaldo, Emilio, Alexander, Edward Porter, Alligator, Ame ...

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Preface and Acknowledgments A persistent failing of American second- ary education is its inability to impart meaningful nationa ...

For nearly two and a half centuries, Amer- ica’s most constant military opponents were the Native Americans. Despite varied orig ...

This was largely because the Confederate States of America enjoyed a wealth of military talent. John C. Breckinridge, a former v ...

crypted messages, rather than martial prow- ess, but it decapitated the head of a phenome- nally determined opponent. No sooner ...

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Aguinaldo, Emilio (March 23, 1869–February 6, 1964) Filipino Guerrilla AGUINALDO, EMILIO B anty, little Aguinaldo championed Phi ...

Gen. Arthur MacArthur on March 31, 1899. Aguinaldo could no longer afford costly con- frontations with better equipped enemy for ...

the Philippines, 1899–1935. West Hanover, PA: Christopher, 1981; Sarkesian, Sam C. America’s For- gotten Wars: The Counterrevolu ...

clared. “If I don’t come and bear my part, they will believe me to be a coward.” He followed his conscience and thereafter becam ...

along the line. During these operations, Alexander also predicted that Union forces would break the stalemate by sinking mine sh ...

ALLIGATOR Alligator (ca. 1795–December 26, 1861) Seminole War Chief A lthough physically diminutive, Alliga- tor loomed large as ...